On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Doug wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > Well, I've picked up messages from the list through Yahoo and Altavista.
> > Including some of my own. I'm of seriously mixed emotions concerning
> > web-accessible mailing list archives (Usenet archives are different --
> > you _know_ that everything you type is being archived by somebody), as
> > I've traditionally considered mailing lists "semi-private".
>
> So, why use your real identity on "published" lists like this one? I
> stopped doing that after I found some email I wrote in *1985* web archived
> and search engine indexed.
My name is mine (well, it was also my father's and grandfather's, as
there wasn't much originality in my family for a while), and I've never
written anything I'm ashamed of in over fifteen years on Usenet and
mailing lists. (There are some things I'm _embarrassed_ by, but that's
a different category). But on some lists I have been known to show
sympathy to "criminals" who never harmed anybody other than themselves
with chemicals or plants yet get sentenced to many decades of prison, to
"criminals" who made the mistake of defending themselves from thieves or
rapists, to "criminals" who offerred an honest product at an honest price
when the product was consensual sexual activity (I have a beloved
ex-sister-in-law in that last category).
--
Ward Griffiths "the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take
the plunge then you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Wed Feb 03 1999 - 00:40:25 GMT